Quebec · Civic arena
Laval drinking water hardness is 253 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#332 of 343
37% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Laval packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.
Full Laval water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Saint-Georges · vs RimouskiHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Laval from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.
Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.
Laval sits at City Score rank #332 with a standing of 37%, from 6 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. Dropping 18 places versus 2022 (#314 → #332).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #20 of 25 (2025); indoor radon rank #71 of 327 at 126 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Laval carries a City Score standing of 37% (rank #332 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 10 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Laval ranks #33 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 78%, rank #76 of 343, raw score 936.7). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 10%, rank #34 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 253 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Laval. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #332 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #37
Rank #20
Rank #76
Rank #71
Rank #34
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Laval pillar standing
Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.
Source: OpenStats composite / study editions
City Score standing trend
Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).
Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source: OpenStats composite timeseries
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Where Laval sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Laval introduces itself as an island before it introduces itself as a suburb. Découvrez votre île is the municipal home line, and Lavallois lean on that geography when they talk about parks, pools, and traffic in the same breath. Centre de la Nature is the big green lung, the place outdoor cinema nights and eco workshops show up on the city calendar. Smaller parks keep their own names in the summer grid: Parc Champfleury, Parc Pie-X, Parc des Saules, Parc Rodolphe-Lavoie, and Parc du Royal-22e-Régiment. That list matters because Laval residents navigate by park names as readily as by arterial roads.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Laval sits at rank 321 of 343. The hometown read stays island-first: not downtown Montreal, not a generic North Shore label, but a city that keeps saying île out loud and then sends you to Centre de la Nature when you need proof. Island first, then parks, then the hospital file: that order is the local desk version of Laval.
Drawn from Ville de Laval, Centre de la Nature.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Laval without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year municipal building permit value per resident (total permit dollars divided by the OpenStats population field). Permit totals use verified municipality-grain rows (Statistics Canada CSD or equivalent municipal open data). Population uses Statistics Canada Census 2021 (tables 98-10-0006-01, 98-10-0002-01). Cities without a verified municipal permit series are unplaced; City Score uses median standing on the construction pillar.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Laval in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Composite · OpenStats
OpenStats
Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016-2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0-1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); mill rates and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
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Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Growth · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Laval in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Ville de Laval's home hero sells the place as an island: Découvrez votre île.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Mon Dossier is the branded citizen account gateway on laval.ca.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
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